LOL...yes sneaky goes along with smart. Although my male husky was the smartest dog I’ve ever seen in my life and he wasn’t sneaky. He just came right out and did the bad thing and then took his punishment. Just like my sons. And just like my boys, he rarely did what he wasn’t supposed to.
Belle swims already. We have a pool and it was the funniest thing when she one day a couple of weeks ago started deliberately jumping in rather than accidently falling in. Wherever I go, she follows. If I’m doing laps, she will run from one end of the pool to the other and will all of a sudden jump right towards me and swim to me. Dogs as stubborn as her are difficult to deal with because I am determined to be the boss and she is determined to be boss. Good thing she is so cute and lovable.
Shelley has never liked my parents' pool -- now this is a story that's going to sound funny, but I tell it for what it's worth.
I worked at an agility trial one time when they were offering free lunch (and a free sweatshirt!) to everybody who worked. So then I had the $5 I had brought for lunch burning a hole in my pocket. There was a lady who had set up as a "Canine Communicator" a/k/a Doggie Psychic, so I plopped down my 5 bucks.
Among other things, she said that Shelley wasn't AFRAID of swimming pools but didn't like them because she fell into one as a puppy. I protested that she'd never been near a pool til she was almost 2 . . . and the lady said, "she's laughing at you."
It wasn't until much later that I remembered that when Shelley boarded with her first trainer as a puppy of about 3 months old, and her trainer told me when I picked her up that she and another Lab managed to unsnap the cover off the hot tub and get in. And that they were the first dogs who had ever managed to do that . . . . sneaky Labs!